bgr_411805 - BRUTTIUM - LAUS Unité

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Price : 150.00 €

Type : Unité

Date: c. 350 AC.

Mint name / Town : Lucanie, Laus

Metal : copper

Diameter : 13,5 mm

Orientation dies : 11 h.

Weight : 1,93 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Joli revers inhabituel. Belle patine verte

Catalogue references :

BMC.- - ANS.154 - MIAMG.2181 var. (350€) - GCT.1486 - HN. Italy2302

Obverse

Obverse description : Buste de face, drapé (Athéna ?) coiffée d’un casque attique à triple aigrette dans le champ à droite, une massue osée verticalement.

Obverse legend : L-D.

Reverse

Reverse description : Deux grives entrecroisées.

Reverse legend : L - A/ M.

Reverse translation : (Laus).

Commentary

Monnayage de la plus grande rareté. Série légère.

Historical background

BRUTTIUM - LAUS

(4th century BC)

Laus was located on the river that bears the same name on the Tyrhenian Sea on the border of Lucania and Bruttium. It was a colony of Sybaris which was destroyed in 510 BC by the Crotoniates. The inhabitants of the metropolis found refuge in the colony of Laus. This was still the case during the second destruction of Sybaris in 470 BC. The inhabitants of Laus participated in the foundation of the new Sybaris in 453 BC, then of Thurium, ten years later. The city was occupied by the Lucanians at the end of the 5th century BC. In 389 BC, the Italian allies tried to drive out the Lucanian tribes allied to Dionysius of Syracuse. They suffered a crushing defeat.

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